hborre posted at 11:47 AM Tue, 31 December 2024 - #4492510

I have experienced someone who has blocked their comments from me completely for some strange reason.  I am curious about what they have to say, but I cannot bother determining why I have been blocked.

sometimes the urge is too great and one must give in

they change vertex order AFAIK (which is why it's a series of VDBs loaded in sequence) so it would be a static mesh (I don't have that plugin)

You can do something in Blender with a modifier I think, I have converted particles to mesh in Blender and single VDB clouds, not tried a sequence

it took me way too long to realise what a 'rosityte was 😋

I thought PR meant preview rendered, not sure of PS

Raindroptheelf posted at 6:21 PM Thu, 28 November 2024 - #4491723

Crystalis posted at 3:09 PM Thu, 28 November 2024 - #4491715

travn posted at 12:24 AM Thu, 28 November 2024 - #4491700

To receive reward points for posting AI images feels to me like people trying to outsmart the Renderosity sales team, lol.

The saying goes, "If you don't have something nice to say, don't say anything at all." and bless your heart that you can't tell the difference. Allow this community to heal, and maybe stop pushing your anti-AI agenda. Wanna be a hero, and "stick it to the man"? Go to any AI art website and tell them to close down shop.

People are allowed their opinion, as much as you are allowed yours. 

I just participated in a forum on AI here that was closed, I buy and use 3D assets and do 3D CGI renders mostly

AI is just something I play with as well

but what I am truly puzzled by and never got an answer for is

if they are so anti AI

why do they themselves post AI art in the gallery here??????

(yes I blocked their gallery just because I don't like them)

I just want to know, it irks me

I accept real artists being offended and never will use Generative AI trained on other's work for monetary gain

too wide for my 4K TV but guess meant for a cinema, added to my hidden playlist so I can try to watch it there later as unlisted
looks very realistic

depending on the export format, you actually get nulls in some software for the instances, I know iClone 6 using FBX I can send duplicates to those "bones" if I export a whole scene
maybe Alienator will work otherwise replacing your instances with tiny triangles or plane primitives (a triangle is half a plane primitive created using the geometry editor if polycount an issue)

Rottenham posted at 5:16 AM Tue, 22 October 2024 - #4490646

ronaldknights posted at 9:46 PM Mon, 21 October 2024 - #4490635

My experience with DAZ software is extremely disappointing. It started when I decided to pay the price to buy DAZ Studio 3 advanced. Of course, eventually DAZ Studio became free. Add to the list Carrara, Bryce, Hexagon, and other titles I've forgotten.

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You're right. I hadn't thought about that. DAZ has been alternately acquiring good things then discarding them for longer than I was remembering. Each time they finish, DAZ is smaller.

I started off with iClone 3 then got Carrara 5 free on a Magazine disc, upgraded to Carrara 6 through DAZ and bought Poser 7

stopped at Poser 11 and obviously Carrara 8.5 as development sadly ended

I never really used DAZ studio much until I got a Desktop as it just crashed on my laptop, Carrara and Poser ran quite well

I finally started with D|S4 and Genesis basically

I do use D|S now of course but mostly because I want to use content that is difficult to use in Carrara, it never was my first choice

they keep adding roadblocks though, I cannot even use Premier if I wanted to due to the Connect PostgreSQL requirements

let alone the content in Carrara even though Genesis 9 can work in Carrara

too good for the compost Stezza😅

another original figure by Ted too

I really need to up my game

you probably can move them to the base, I had to do that a few times with 3DU figures for iClone 6, in edit mode there is property mover

OMG seriously though

yeah DAZ store search is terrible,

I remember when someone wanted an actual tumbleweed for a wild west street scene, and everyone kept linking that horse 🤣

yeah posing them in a sort of Tpose is needed to set them up but it will play imported animations correctly

I use iClone 6 and have no issues other than having to set up everything manually in expression editor in 3DX6 every time

I cannot speak for the later better improved pipeline

I just do everything manually, even use my own bone based facials for genesis 3,8,8.1 and 9 

I do this for Unreal Engine and Twinmotion (which doesn't support vertex morphs/Blendshapes) too

I will weigh in on my own situation. I like Genesis 9,

already bought a lot of it's content

but

I just want to use the content I pay to use,

connect and encryption prevents that while doing utterly nothing to stop the pirates from stealing it.

smart content while lovely no longer works on my current PC, let alone any other new PostGreSQL dependent features maybe it will when I save money not buying DAZ stuff on my next PC (Ironically it works on my old Win7)

Connect will not work with Carrara my favourite software but Genisis 9 does with a few adaptions

so, it basically comes down to if I can buy useable content, if I could, I would consider Premier the occasional month, as it stands, I would be wasting my money

people will speak with their wallets, if it sells, good for DAZ, if not they may reconsider